Statement
of Arakan National Council Calls for the Union of Myanmar Government to
Immediate Halt of Wars against the Kachin People
May 6,
2012
Arakan National Council (ANC) calls the Union of Myanmar
Government to immediately halt the offensive wars against the Kachin
Independent organization (KIO) and its armed wing, Kachin Independent Army
(KIA).
The on-going war intensified by the government in the Kachin
State is an extension of political power vesting and natural resources
controlling. As a result, thousands of Kachin ethnic people are impetus to
become refugees in the neighboring China and causalities and deaths of hundreds
of civilian. The war definitely intersperses the current cease-fire
negotiations with the ethnic nationalities forces.
The history tells us the paradigm that in 1994 when the KIO
entered the cease-fire agreement with the previous military regime, the Karen
National Union (KNU) stronghold, Manaplaw, was seized by the unwavering
military operations in 1995. The current government increasing its military
personals and artillery shelling over the KJO’s headquarter, Lizar, is similar
travesty. Thus, the government’s peace negotiation with the ethnic forces
including KIO and President U Thein Sein’s far-cry for “everlasting peace”
effort is unconvincing.
The “everlasting peace” cannot be achieved without full
recognition of the ethnic nationalities’ innate rights for equality,
self-determination, and fair justice in order of the way they want to live and
sustain.
The longer the wars are going on, the Kachin people will be
suffered more, and the ethnic people, mainly the Rakhine people, will no longer
interested in peace negotiation with the government.
It is time the government to show genuine wills to have peace
and peaceful co-existence with the ethnic nationality communities by completely
halting the civic wars in the Kachin State and imposing a nation-wide
cease-fire unconditionally.
Central Executive Committee
Arakan National Council
New Delhi
India
Contact Person. Chairman Ven. Ashin
Ariawnatha; tel. (66) 900515448.
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